Word: dumbness
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...elephants are kindly but they're dumb...
George Hamlin makes the father of the family lively and sympathetic in this Harvard production. Nancy Cox is a prattling wife and mother, Mary Moss a disgruntled daughter, and James Shuman slides and glides through the evening as the dumb schmurz. On all counts, this is one of the most interesting and satisfying productions the Harvard Dramatic Club has done in the last 15 years...
...Still Dumb, Still Menacing...
...third and final act, there is no one left but the father--and the schmurz, still silent but now beginning to make contact: moving packages which the man has brought upstairs to this his ultimate retreat, yet still dumb, still quietly menacing...
Lawrence's posthumous triumph as a dramatist is shared by Director Gill, whose careful casting and slow, relentless holding of long silences allow the language to flower in the mind and the subtle relationships of these numb, dumb characters to take form. Seldom in years have London audiences sat so awed and hushed as at the final scene of Mrs. Holroyd, in which the coal-blackened body of a miner (Michael Coles), the victim of a pit accident, lies on the floor of his shack while his widow (Judy Parfitt) begins to wash him, keening to herself...